Lung Disease

September 7, 1986|By Charlie Jean

DEPLETION of vitamin E may be a factor in the well-documented connection between smoking and lung diseases, Ohio State University researchers say. Scientists found seven times more vitamin E in the fluid of non-smokers' lungs than in that of smokers. The vitamin helps the lungs resist damage from hazardous inhaled materials, but the precise connection between smoking and vitamin E depletion isn't known.